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Bangkok-Thailand is not only famous for its pace for fun and nightspots, but Bangkok is also a city full of peace of religion.
Bangkok is the capital city for the Kingdom of Thailand, the country make this distance to hundreds of complex ascetic Buddhist temples and monasteries scattered throughout Bangkok, then don't be surprised if with meditate. Bangkok save 400 temples, and about 30.000 Buddhist place of worship scattered throughout Thailand.
one of the great temple and became a major pilgrimage destination in Buddhist Thailand or other countries is Wat Phra Kaew ( Temple of the Emerald Buddha) in the palace complex. in front of the entrance there is large Golden Bowl of water. reconciled overlap lotus flowers, lotus flowers each pilgrim can dip into bowl of gold, and then make touching into their hands, and doing water dripping from a lotus flower, pilgrim will deliver petition to the Buddha.
there are three Emerald Buddha statue placed alternately every four months in this temple, all three wore different clothing depicting winter, summer, and rainy season. every turn of the sculpture was done by the King. the ceremony was attended by the entire royal family and attended by monks and nuns.
the rest of the wall up to the ceiling of the temple was decorated with paintings depicting the journey of the Buddha in the world. with 90 percent of the population of the Buddhist religion, values of the Buddha's life are reflected in the daily lives of the citizen of Thailand. one of them is : every boy who entered the age of 20 will leave his family and life in the monastery to study and learning the science of religion, length of stay in the abbey dependent on personal respectively, starting from three days to three years.
Bangkok so famous all over the world with its tourist attractions and a haven for transvestite. but Bangkok has also become a source of knowledge of the quantity of the Buddha's life values. when the bells rang temple, pilgrim bowed with reverence while pleading for guidance in life pilgrimage in the world that truly ephemeral.
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Bangkok And Its history
the name of the city of Bangkok come from the word BANG and KOK, Bang means is Delta and Kok is mean jambul or java Plum, so Bangkok means that a city must be preserved as we keep the Java Plum fruit of the world that is not extinct.
but actually, Bangkok has FULL NAME : Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Rattanakson Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit. that's the full name of the city of Bangkok.
and the full name has a meaning that is : The City Of the Gods, the big city, where resides the emerald Buddha avatar of Lord Indra, the city , the capital of the world blessed nine grains of gems, the happy city, the city gained enormously from the Royal Palace as a place of paradise deity reincarnated in the throne, as well as a city given by Indra and built by Visnu. but people in Thailand abbreviate full name Bangkok KRUNG THEP or The City Of The Gods.
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